.TH XFDESKTOP 1 "July 2019"

.SH NAME
xfdesktop \- The Xfce 4 Desktop Environment's desktop manager

.SH SYNOPSIS
.B xfdesktop
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.B xfdesktop
.I [options]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBxfdesktop\fP manages the desktop itself in the Xfce 4 Desktop Environment.
This includes drawing the desktop backdrop and providing a right-click
applications menu and middle-click window list menu, as well as drawing
icons on the desktop.  Only one instance of xfdesktop can be running at
a time, and should be started by running \fBxfdesktop\fP without any arguments.

.SH OPTIONS

.SS HELP OPTIONS:
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.B \-h, --help
Show help options
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.B \--help-all
Show all help options
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.B \--help-gtk
Show GTK+ Options
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.B \--help-sm-client
Show session management options

.SS APPLICATION OPTIONS:
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.B \-V, --version
Display version information
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.B \-R, --reload
Causes an already-running instance of \fBxfdesktop\fP to reload all its
settings and redraws the desktop background.
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.B \-N, --next
Causes an already-running instance of \fBxfdesktop\fP to advance to the
next wallpaper on the current workspace.
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.B \-M, --menu
Causes an already-running instance of \fBxfdesktop\fP to pop up the
applications menu at the current position of the mouse cursor.
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.B \-W, --windowlist
Causes an already-running instance of \fBxfdesktop\fP to pop up the window
list menu at the current position of the mouse cursor.
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.B \-A, --arrange
Automatically arrange all the icons on the desktop
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.B \-D, --disable-wm-check
Do not wait for a window manager on startup
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.B \-e, --enable-debug
Enable debug messages
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.B \-d, --disable-debug
Disable debug messages
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.B \-Q, --quit
Cause \fBxfdesktop\fP to quit
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.B \--display=[DISPLAY]
X display to use

.SH ENVIRONMENT
\fBxfdesktop\fP's behavior is affected by the following environment variables.
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.B XDG_CONFIG_HOME
Specifies the root for all user-specific configuration files.  If this
environment variable is not present, it defaults to
.I ~/.config
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.B XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
Specifies a colon-separated list of system directories in which to search
for configuration data.
If this environment variable is not present, it defaults to
.I /etc/xdg

.SH FILES
\fBxfdesktop\fP searches for a menu description file in
.IR $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/menus/xfce-applications.menu .
\fBxfdesktop\fP can also use a user-customized menu in
.IR $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/menus/ .

.SH BUGS
Please report any bugs to
.IR https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop .
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Development discussion should be conducted on the
.IR xfce4-dev@xfce.org
mailing list.
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Usage-related questions should be directed to the
.IR xfce@xfce.org
mailing list.

.SH HOMEPAGE
.I https://xfce.org/

.SH AUTHOR
Jasper Huijsmans <huysmans@users.sourceforge.net>, Benedikt Meurer
<benny@xfce.org>, Brian Tarricone <bjt23@cornell.edu>, and Eric
Koegel <eric@xfce.org>.

This manual page was originally written by Brian Tarricone <bjt23@cornell.edu>.
